Method for making bathing caps and analogous articles



Jan. 27, 1931. J. STEIN 1,790,118

' METHOD FOR MAKING BATHING CAPS AND ANALOGOUS ARTICLES Original Filed May 7, 1927 -39 I u t e mngnnon r03 MAKING BATHING CAPS- AND ANALoeons A azes V Y f1, 790,1 s,-

'oril imii apnl cation med; my 7,119 27, SeriaI- n .1a9,725. ln i i iq e and is ab ica ln me away 2; j

. law-seri lNo.245,22t v The present invention is a method the production of sog calle d bathi'ng capspwhich;

are generally made uppof impervi'o-ussheet material, such as .rubbenand'used for main-' taining .thejhairi or headldr'y while bathing;-

but the'i'present' invention, relate 38 ticu larly to the.. .production, 0f. Tsoi-cal-led shower, caps, manor the skull-jfitting type, usually having an ornamental bo'r der of 1 different colored material and which se vesas; a head band andreinforcement ofythe head}. Opening. ,Howeveni it is to be understood. that other types of caps. within "reasonable limits maybe produced .the present in is; vention with or without the difierentcolored border.

It is well linowntliat various have been proposed forthe .makingfof such caps, but" they .re quire numerous manual op- 2Q erations yvhichi are expensive, 7 slow. and ;un

satisfactory from the standpolnt of accuracy:

and quantity production. v The present invention is an, improved method aimingto overcome the above stated 2 drawbacks andthe production of articles of i i the above stated character more economically, and in greater'numbersthan heretofore .for a given number of operations or n a: g ven:

time; V object of. the present invention is an improved method by which two or more caps orarticles maybe made from a width:

' of opposed-sheets of material.

hereinafter described and particularly d efined by the appended claims. In order that the manner of carrying out the process may be-better understood, drawings are appendedhereto, in which 'Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the initiate steps or manner of handling or arranging the materials which enter into the construction of cap or articlein accordance with the method of this invention, mainly folding of a border or band strip and'arranging it in relation with the body strip G or D and then severing or slitting said body and band strips. 7

Figures 2 and 2a show body sheets and .5 hand strips from which complemental porting'or severances. a 1

Figures 3 jandzfia' arev diagrammat c views tions b'rftilegartid produced a'c cording to it this invention are; provided and further il1us trates; the relatio nbr positionflof the band strips relative to thefbody;zsheet before slit showing the materials beingoperatedupom r severed'edg'es of thematerial spaced'tofper w the unfolding of the. ban'd strips f withl out over-lapping; 1

.. Figures 52 and 5d show folded];

LEigu're '6 shows the corresponding severed" sheetsectionsof the cap material C and. D, shown; in Figures 2,1,3 elanolv 5, brought face. Y to. face or in. superposed relationand the. manner; of cutting the assembled sheet sec .{ti onsto produce the'complete articles, 4

Figure-7is-a,,plan view of the assembled sheets in Fig. 6, the dotted line lOindi'catin'g the 'ne of severanoe or cutting to produce the articleor cap;.and- 3 1 HF'gure Si a vijew ofa ompletedcap.

of thecap. These sheetsg-arebrought face to;

faoeor to opposed relation .(see Fig. 6) and I v a A then subjected to the action of a suitable cuts The invention includes the novelprocess ting tool': ordevicez 14 tose ver and obtain gTh'e method employed to accomplish f the i above stated purposes broadly resides in pro- V vidingztwo sheets of subtantially equal width v C and D, Figure2, or two sources of supply:

o f-said sheet-material, which form the, body andfS). I When the sheet materials are unvulcanized -rubber, the severed; edges: of the 0pposedsheet portions of the article are joined to? each other by meansof this'cutting action as-i's commonly understood-in the art and, in

r the manufacture, of articles such as bathing caps or, the like, the head opening of the cap is formed by the edge ofthe sheet-material,

which iS not subjectedto thecutting 0p tion ee Figures) I a a Mjore specifically,the method the narrowed band, strips F, longitudinally, one

to each-ofsaidb ody'sheets, respectively,'along intermediate -:st;eps' "of, placing or applying thensubjeoting the sheets to the cutting action of a tool or device 13 along a medial line of said band strips F for severing the band and body in two and securing the adjacent edges h of said band and'body material together, when the materials areof unvulcanized rubber ('seeFig. 3). The next, step of the 'method consists in spacing apart 'sai'd" severed edges of the sheet material andD; and unfolding the split or severed portions f of strips F to". formian extension: of .thecaps body sheet, asillustrated in Figures 4 and 5.

-, Itis, of courseflinderstoodthat thetW-o cap body sheets C and D are treated in theman i5 ner abovestated, the severed or dividedpor-i ,tions 21 and 3 of 'sheetG being brought face to face or in opposed relation with'the like portions 4 and 5, respectively", of the; other she'et'D toprovi'de cap or articleforming strips, as, shown in Figures/ 6 and 7L The e stripsare'fthen' each'subj'ected. 'to a cutting operation, preferably ofa' diecutter I l,"

for removing-from each article or capst'rip a semi-oval shaped portion forming the cap (see Figures 6 anfd 7) Of course, it is un' ders'tood" that the shape of the line of sever ance 9 may vary according tothe article the border strips or ban'dsjf ofdouble' o'rre inforc'ed. strength, and, therefore,.the strips then suit-ably vulcanized,

V 7 produced; This cutting operation, when severing unvulcanized sheet rubber, unites the adjacent severed; edges i the opposed sheet portions formingthecap'zand intersects the edge-of the border or band strips 7, which edges form the head opening of the cap 10; V A Otherwise,; it'is necessary to cement, stitch or "suitably secure together the edges to: be

united Rubber articles, thus provided, are

It is desirable in HIaDY'IIIStaIICGS' to" have t F (shown in Figuresl and 2) are folded,

'asfat 15 upon themselves at their marginal edge portions before the materials are sub-- jected to the action of the cutting tool1j3, il-

* lustrated in Figure 3, which, after this splitting, formthebands f ofdouble thickness;

In a'ccordancewith the present disclosure the sh'eetsof material C and D are 'offa width at least that ofthe double depth of'the cap I; to be made and are divided longitudinally in the separate sections, one-section from each of the sheets 0 and D being brought in op-- posed relation to form the article, thus en abling'production of two caps simultaneously from-a'width of opposed sheets of material.

folders and conveyor means .whichbring the treated sheet sections 2, 3, a and 5 in opposing relation, shown in Figure 6, or the steps may be carried out by merely manual operations. .It is, of course, understood that while the method of :thi's i'nvention has been r described specifically in connection with the manufacture of bathingcaps, it is not limited thereto because; -it may be obviously applied and used in the manufacture of other analogous .tarticleszipg t v This application divisional applica tiorr ofthecop'ending application fonltetters Patent,i'serial No; 189,725, which matured into Patent 1510, 1,?46545. 7

Having thus" described the invention and in what manner the same is to'be performed, thatwhich 'i'sclaimeda's new'isr A -Inethoo l qr making bathingcaps-amt analogous' article's. including applying a relativel ynarrow strip of material alon'gga me:

diailine' ona' surface of each of two sheets of rubber and cutting each strip and sheet to divide the same into two parts and unite the severediedges of the strip and sheet, thenbringing the severed sections of one sheetinopposed relation with corresponding sections" of the other'sheetgthen" cutting the opposed sections along a dine intersecting the free edgeof said attached strip at two points thereof,'and uniting said last mentioned sev ered ed-ges p i I 2. A method of. making bathing caps and- ,analogous 'articles including applying' rel/a tivelynarrow strip-of rubber along ,a nredia'l line as v a surface of each wofftwo sliee'tsof lation with corresponding sections of the other sheet, then subjectingthe opposed sectionsto' a cuttingo erationalen 'a line inter secting the free edge of said attached strip at two points thereof an'dwhich also joins-the severedted'g'es: i

In testimony whereof I have heIGHT-lfiQ setmy hand. Y V r JACOB- STEIN;

I n orderthat the section and '3-e-5' may beheld from slipping out of position during the handling or the operation ofthe'to'ol 14', these are secured together, as at 16 and-17;, by stitching, pinching or the like.

j' The operations or steps above described maybe done continuously or in immediate succession, the sheets C and D and the strips F'bjeing fed'from any suitable source. to or between folders, cutters, spacing devices, 1111-- its 

